CONTEXT Peer-group deviance is strongly associated with externalizing behaviors. We have limited knowledge of the sources of individual differences in peer-group deviance. OBJECTIVE To clarify genetic and environmental contributions to peer-group deviance in twins from midchildhood through early adulthood. DESIGN Retrospective assessments using a life-history calendar. Analysis by biometric...

Responding to Wu and LeBreton’s (2011) call for further study, this paper examines dispositional predictors of organizational deviance. In a sample of 428 participants, self-report data were collected anonymously. Using hierarchical regression, the dispositional variables of entitlement and conscientiousness were similarly strong and statistically significant predictors of organizational devian...

This introduction offers an overview of current academic discussions about the term ‘conspiracy theory’, historical development conspiracy beliefs, and knowledge phenomenon. In addition, it addresses relation between thinking, state power, culture deviance. The authors emphasize need to move beyond a pathological view on take them seriously study from cultural critical criminological perspective.

This article contends that contemporary writings on the representation of offending women provide a simplified outline ‘available’ representations. To nuance and further complicate our understanding, this study lays bare most salient media characterisations perpetrators in Swedish press. In contrast to much previous research, it covers various offence types an extensive period time (1905–2015) ...

Positive deviance refers to behavior that deviates from the norms of the reference group and has positive effects on the organization. It is an endogenous source of organizational creativity that has been shown to be powerful tool for learning and change. Despite growing interest, little remains known about the factors that stimulate positive deviance; in particular, how management can enable i...

Although his work has been largely overlooked by symbolic interactionists and other students of deviance, Aristotle (c384-322BCE) addresses community life, activity, agency, and persuasive interchange in ways that not only are remarkably consistent with contemporary symbolic interactionist approaches to deviance, but that also conceptually inform present day theories of deviance and provide val...

Abstract Context-adapted interventions are needed to alleviate the burden of food and nutrition insecurity on resource-poor rural households in southeastern Madagascar. The Positive Deviance approach implies identifying locally viable development solutions by focusing particularly successful, innovative individuals. To identify promising practices that could be promoted as part security (FNS) A...